# PHP - Data Explorer API Example

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**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [January 23, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/php-data-explorer-api-example/348668 "2025-01-23T19:04:19Z")\
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I’d trim most of the comments to make it easier to read 🙂  
Some comments are unnecessary, like:

```plaintext
// Obtain result
//
$result = curl_exec( $ch );

```

or

```plaintext
// close curl session
curl_close( $ch );

```

Also, know you can set the syntax highlighting by appending the language name to the first line of backticks:

````plaintext
```php
$headers = array("Content-Type: multipart/form-data;","Api-Key: $api_key","Api-Username: system",);
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data);
```

````

Renders as

```php
$headers = array("Content-Type: multipart/form-data;","Api-Key: $api_key","Api-Username: system",);
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$data);

```

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